Skill Development

Link: Restoring the Circle: A training program to support Indigenous 2SLGBTQ+ folks with lived experience of gender-based violence

Description: The Native Women's Association of Canada’s e-learning program on providing trauma-informed, culturally safe, and intersectional services for, to, and with 2SLGBTQ+ Indigenous people with lived experience of gender-based violence.

Type(s): Capacity building

Topic(s):  Trauma-informed approaches, cultural safety, 2S-LGBTQ+ Indigenous safety, gender-based violence, and more

Link: Safer Spaces

Description: Safer Spaces is a 2S-LGBTQ+ Equity, Diversity and Inclusion education program, offering a range of training and consultation services for service providers and workplaces. Their services are research and evidence -informed, center 2S-LGBTQ+ lived experiences, and focus on best practices. They appreciate meeting people where they are at, and working together to strengthen the knowledge, resources, and tools needed to grow into a more inclusive organization, service, and workplace.

Type(s): Capacity building, consultations

Topic(s): 2S-LGBTQ+ inclusion in the workplace

Link: The Learning Network

Description: The Learning Network is a valuable source of evidence-informed resources for individuals, service providers, and organizations working to end violence against women and other forms of gender-based violence

Type(s): Capacity building

Topic(s): Trauma-informed approaches, 2S-LGBTQ+ safety, vicarious trauma, gender-based violence, and more

Link: McMaster Toolkit on Working with Older Adults

Description: Get an overview of the importance of communication as well as best practices when caring for older adults; typical and atypical changes related to the aging process; important psychosocial issues and challenges; privacy and legal issues; and examine your assumptions related to caring for older adults in the healthcare system.

Type(s): Capacity building

Topic(s): Communication skills

Link: Coming Out and Coming In to Living with Dementia

Description: A series of e-modules on enhancing support for 2SLGBTQI people living with dementia and their primary unpaid carers

Type(s): Capacity building, guides

Topic(s): Dementia, 2S-LGBTQ+ older adult support, 2SLGBTQI identity and dementia, collective experiences

Link: The Social Research and Demonstration Corporation Phase 1 Report

Description: Funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE), the project Building the evidence base about economic, health and social inequities faced by LGBTQ2S+ individuals in Canada is led by the Social Research Demonstration Corporation (SRDC), in partnership with Dr. Sean Waite at the University of Western Ontario, Pride at Work Canada (PAWC), and the Labour Market Information Council (LMIC).

Type(s): Capacity building, career development

Topic(s): 2S-LGBTQ+ career development, economic and labour market outcomes

Link: Leading & Learning with Pride - A Revitalized Tool Kit on Supporting 2SLGBTQI+ Seniors

Description: In 2004, the City of Toronto division of Seniors Services and Long-Term Care (SSLTC) became one of the first providers in North America to shift towards a model of long-term care that worked to address the needs of Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (Trans), Queer, Intersex, and additional gender- and sexual minorities (2SLGBTQI+). In 2008, to promote this model division-wide, SSLTC released the first iteration of the comprehensive LGBT Tool Kit: For Creating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Culturally Competent Care at Toronto Long-Term Care Homes & Services. This is a more up-to-date and comprehensive version of that report.

Type(s): Building individual knowledge and skills, building organizational capacity

Topic(s): Supporting 2S-LGBTQ+ Seniors in Toronto